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Author Topic: English Big Game Rifle  (Read 752 times)

Online Hank in WV

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Re: English Big Game Rifle
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2024, 05:59:38 PM »
Looks to me like all those sights slide down the barrel as one unit.
Hank in WV
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Offline Winter Hawk

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Re: English Big Game Rifle
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2024, 06:58:02 PM »
I'm trying to remember who made a rifle which shot belted balls, and yes No Powder, they look like Saturn, sort of.  Darn it, I just can't recollect which military rifle used them.  I looked up the Ferguson and the Hall, both were breach loaders but nothing on belted bullets.... Ah, got it, the Brunswick Rifle: https://researchpress.uk/firearms/british-military-longarms/brunswick-rifle/

I knew I had read about it many moons ago!

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